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Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD @KimWexlerMAJD - BIDEN OFFICIAL FUNDED HAMAS WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS
Julieta Valls Noyes served as head of the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) and simultaneously chaired the Advisory Commission (AdCom) for UNRWA, the UN Refugee Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
In recent years the U.S. has been the largest single donor to UNRWA, with funding flowing directly from PRM. The Framework of Cooperation (functionally a Memorandum of Understanding) specifies terms and conditions, including ensuring funds are not used to support terrorism, consistent with Section 301(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act.
Noyes was welcomed to her first AdCom meeting on November 14, 2022 and served as chair until October 4, 2024. She signed, together with UN Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini, the Framework of Cooperation between UNRWA and the U.S. on May 30, 2023.
In August 2023, the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research released an eight-minute film titled “Askar-UNRWA: Cradle of Killers” documenting how UNRWA-operated schools were indoctrinating children and young people to hate Jews and to wage Jihad against Israel. David Bedein has worked to expose radicalization in Palestine for more than 20 years.
Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a rocket attack and incursion on Israel on October 7, 2023, initiating the ongoing Gaza war.
On January 29, 2024, the Wall Street Journal reported on an Israeli intelligence dossier that estimated about ten percent of UNRWA’s 12,000 staff in Gaza were affiliated or have membership in Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and nearly half of UNRWA employees had a close relative with “official ties to the militant groups, especially Hamas.”
In a follow-on report in February 2024, WSJ reported that weapons caches had been found in UNRWA schools “for years,” that Hamas had built a network of tunnels linking UNRWA facilities, and that UNRWA-provided fuel and aid was going to Hamas.
In an April 15, 2024 report for the Center for Immigration Studies, Nayla Rush asked: “What is the exact role and engagement of Noyes, a high-ranking U.S. State Department official, within UNRWA? […] Moreover, if the chair was here to assist UNRWA implement its work, does this mean the U.S. government is partly to blame for UNRWA’s failures and biases?”
In August 2024 the UN Office of Oversight Services determined that at least nine UNRWA staff members “may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel.” UNRWA reportedly terminated the staff members’ contracts.
In October 2024 The Jerusalem Post reported Hamas members take UNRWA vehicles to move around the Gaza strip, “as a form of defense, so they can move around easily…. [W]hen they get into a UNRWA vehicle and drive in it, and get things with it, the supplies, of course, then they are protected … because it’s an agency vehicle.”
Middle East Monitor reported on November 20, 2024 how three attempts to dismantle UNRWA — efforts led by the U.S., Canada, Italy, Sweden and Denmark — had been successfully thwarted by the UNRWA Advisory Commission. Beirut-based Association 302 to Defend Refugees’ Rights “emphasized that the failure of the proposals aimed at dissolving UNRWA can be attributed to the unity of the countries hosting Palestinian refugees: Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Palestine.”
In January 2025 Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, demanded that UNRWA cease operations in Jerusalem and close its office due to “widespread infiltration of UNRWA’s ranks by Hamas and other terrorist organizations.”
In March 2025, the Trump administration said UNRWA funding would be cut for one year.
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